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. >> president obama beat his record from last, which being 10 and beat 9, i think it was $39 billion in food stamps when george bush left office. hundred billion dollars. >> dana: let's say that everybody needs, "x" amount fraud. 15% however that figures in to. as a country we're not talking about how to help people get off the system and on to a more sustainable lifestyle to be able to take care of themselves. when you opened you talked about an article when president obama is quoted by boehner as saying he said to him we don't have a spending problem. the white house is not backtracked on that. obama has backtracked on something, medicaid cuts. he was willing to do $110 billion in cuts and he is not going to. president obama was admitting that he could not bring his left his democrats to the table on spending cuts. that is why we're going to have another fight on this in february. >> if things were getting better and he has created these jobs, why do we have to increase spending on food stamps. >> greg: when he says we don't have a spending problem, he is right. we have a mental he
. >> president obama beat his record from last, which being 10 and beat 9, i think it was $39 billion in food stamps when george bush left office. hundred billion dollars. >> dana: let's say that everybody needs, "x" amount fraud. 15% however that figures in to. as a country we're not talking about how to help people get off the system and on to a more sustainable lifestyle to be able to take care of themselves. when you opened you talked about an article when president...
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we don't know exactly how many funds will be needed because president obama mesa in the size of a faster downsizing, but the 88 billion requested for overseas contingency operations in 2013 is a relatively noncontroversial part of this whole thing. let me talk a lot couple of numbers, and i want to try to get a couple of them on the table in answer to your question, from in the broader strategic dialogue we're about to have. that 88 billion which is about half where we work needs to be added to about 550 billion. about 550 billion with in 2013 according to a defense authorization bill which was passed by congress, so we do have the defense authorization bill. it just has limited significance since the appropriations which actually provide the money are being done on this ongoing continuing resolution basis and since sequestration is still a possibility in two months. to give you a feel for that, 550 billion in the base budget, how that compares to reference points. let me give a couple, and i am sure there will, the discussion. you can look at that number as being big war modest than the
we don't know exactly how many funds will be needed because president obama mesa in the size of a faster downsizing, but the 88 billion requested for overseas contingency operations in 2013 is a relatively noncontroversial part of this whole thing. let me talk a lot couple of numbers, and i want to try to get a couple of them on the table in answer to your question, from in the broader strategic dialogue we're about to have. that 88 billion which is about half where we work needs to be added to...
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he's now been nominated to run. >> chuck represents the bipartisan position we need more of in washington. for his independence and commitment to consensus, he's earned the respect of military leaders, republicans and democrats including me. in the senate, i came to admire his courage and judgment, his willingness to speak his mind, even if it wasn't popular. even if it defied the conventional wisdom. that's exactly the spirit i want on my national security team. a recognition that when it come to the defense of our country, we're not democrats or republicans. we are americans. maybe most importantly, chuck knows that war is not an abstraction. he understands that sending young americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that's something we only do when it's absolutely necessary. my frame of reference, he said, is geared towards the guy at the bottom who's doing the fighting and the dying. >> after yesterday's announcement, the fight over hagel's nomination are still working. there have not been my nengs about the courtesy calls or start date for confirmation hearings. the battle li
he's now been nominated to run. >> chuck represents the bipartisan position we need more of in washington. for his independence and commitment to consensus, he's earned the respect of military leaders, republicans and democrats including me. in the senate, i came to admire his courage and judgment, his willingness to speak his mind, even if it wasn't popular. even if it defied the conventional wisdom. that's exactly the spirit i want on my national security team. a recognition that when...
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it left a vacancy that needed to be filled and president obama looked around and found the intelligence adviser he was closest to. john brennan has worked close to president obama antitrust him and he likes him and john brennan has been crucial in all the secret counter terror missions that the cia has been doing around the world including the expense of drone program. this seems like the perfect choice for obama to get his body in there and someone who was in the middle of the secret stuck the cia is already doing. host: what are the issues that critics would have with john brennan? guest: he is the architect and defender of the legal justification for going into other countries and killing people, even sometimes americans, through a process that is not transparent like the rdrones. that is one thing -- the other thing is that the role of the cia is just not well understood. that'll be something that will be covered in these confirmation hearings. host: 4 john brennan, what are his foreign policy challenges? are they the same as those that defense secretary chuck hagel would face if he
it left a vacancy that needed to be filled and president obama looked around and found the intelligence adviser he was closest to. john brennan has worked close to president obama antitrust him and he likes him and john brennan has been crucial in all the secret counter terror missions that the cia has been doing around the world including the expense of drone program. this seems like the perfect choice for obama to get his body in there and someone who was in the middle of the secret stuck the...
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>> i told president obama that day i would do whatever was best for the mission. i would be happy to go back and continue to command or if he decided to accept my resignation, in fact, i would move out. >> sean: and you voted for him in 2008. this happened in 2010. may i ask you did you vote for him in 2012. >> i'm a private citizen and i'll keep that to myself. >> sean: you're going to keep to yourself on that one. all of a sudden your career ends, walk out of the office and president accepted your resignation. what are you thinking? who did you call? what's that like for you? >> several things. the first thing is, it's a short drive back to fort mcnair. i drive back to the fort mcnair, i'd come in early that morning after flying all night. taken a shower, put on my uniform headed first to the pentagon and the white house and annie knew what the controversy was, but she had no idea what the likely outcome was. as i drove back, several things came into my mind. first, i had 150,000 soldiers counting on me many who had deployed simply because i'd asked them. many i
>> i told president obama that day i would do whatever was best for the mission. i would be happy to go back and continue to command or if he decided to accept my resignation, in fact, i would move out. >> sean: and you voted for him in 2008. this happened in 2010. may i ask you did you vote for him in 2012. >> i'm a private citizen and i'll keep that to myself. >> sean: you're going to keep to yourself on that one. all of a sudden your career ends, walk out of the...
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the button says, obama. >> that's it for this week. you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. at our website, billmoyers.com there is a lot more to learn about global warming. our climate change spotlight page is filled with articles, tools, and resources, to enlighten, inform, and help you make a difference. and with this new year of moyers and company, i want to thank all of you for getting us to nearly 150,000 fans on facebook. there's lots of room for more so, join us. i'll see you there and i'll see you here, next time. don't wait a week to get more moyers. visit billmoyers.com for exclusive blogs, videos and essay features. this episode is available on dvd for $19 oin 95 call 800-6-1917. or write to the address on your screen. funding is provided by -- carnegie corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charita
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. >> why does obama need that. he opposed the war longer than chuck hagel. >> chuck hagel did. same thing with one of the few republican senators. after the war started he began to rethink his view of the world. it's not only about iran. the other thing is that obama wants someone to bring the defense department back into focus. >> is this a smaller foreign policy? >> i think it is. you can completely separate it, wall it off from all considerations about the national debt. chuck hagel doesn't see it that way. he's a lot like dwight eisenhower who drove the defense budget down quite dramatically. he believed america's real power was its fiscal health. >> a lot of fire around hagel has to do with israel and the lack of support for israel. let's listen to what john cornyn said. >> comments with the so-called jewish lobby, which seems to denigrate the efforts of pro-israel individuals, myself included, who view that relationship as a special relationship one that is important to our national security and stability in the region. >> is this a real problem for hagel? >> this is real
. >> why does obama need that. he opposed the war longer than chuck hagel. >> chuck hagel did. same thing with one of the few republican senators. after the war started he began to rethink his view of the world. it's not only about iran. the other thing is that obama wants someone to bring the defense department back into focus. >> is this a smaller foreign policy? >> i think it is. you can completely separate it, wall it off from all considerations about the national...
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she needs help now. i voted for obama. it allowed her to maintain her support she would have lost under romney. i main objective right now is that we spent all this time, we are great people, we are talking to ourselves. we are not the ones we need to talk to. we need to talk to the almost half of america who voted against their own best interest repeatedly. i was down in immokalee to talk to people to understand what was going on and talk to people who are republicans, who view the world differently, and to get them to look at their own best interests. and ask the question, what do they want their own world to be? my question is, how do we get to those people? >> i tend to think, as i said, there is a layer of low hanging fruit that is extremely appealing to people across all constituencies and across all parties. it sounded to me like you were saying how can people on the left reach out to people on the upper right. i just think we need to reach out to both sides and appealed to people on the very rational, reasonable se
she needs help now. i voted for obama. it allowed her to maintain her support she would have lost under romney. i main objective right now is that we spent all this time, we are great people, we are talking to ourselves. we are not the ones we need to talk to. we need to talk to the almost half of america who voted against their own best interest repeatedly. i was down in immokalee to talk to people to understand what was going on and talk to people who are republicans, who view the world...
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need proof? already the president's putting up his dukes nominating chuck hagel to run the pentagon. he slammed the door on debt ceiling negotiations demanding congress raise it without drama and says he's ready to be tough on gun control but remember the president doesn't have to worry about re-election ever again. so expect his second term agenda to look a lot like this. full of overtures to the base which criticized him over the last four years for caving to republicans. to help decipher what to expect in the next four years, we start with nbc's peter alexander outside of the white house and "the washington post" david nakamura. peter, look, you could describe the first term and the first few months since being re-elected as a confident obama. making bold cabinet picks. laying out a very ambitious agenda, adding gun legislation to the docket or you could describe it as almost confident. you know, he backed away from the susan rice pick. he gave in on taxing the top income earners at the rate h
need proof? already the president's putting up his dukes nominating chuck hagel to run the pentagon. he slammed the door on debt ceiling negotiations demanding congress raise it without drama and says he's ready to be tough on gun control but remember the president doesn't have to worry about re-election ever again. so expect his second term agenda to look a lot like this. full of overtures to the base which criticized him over the last four years for caving to republicans. to help decipher...
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i think it matters he doesn't need to run again. i think that means he'll be willing to hold out and be tougher in some ways unanimous his first term. one something that his allies need to run again. democrats in the house and in the senate and he has to keep them on his team so he can't say i'm willing to do all these things to break republican opposition to compromise. >> reporter: republicans also say we have a majority in the house, we won our elections too, thank you very much mr. president. >> that's right. >> rose: let me talk about the economy and the growth of the economy. does -- look at experience in europe, look at what britain has done and look at germany and -- is austerity bad for growth? >> in the short term it is very hard to argue that austerity is a financial crisis. you look at any lesson in history, look at us in the depression, the fame strategy of liquidate the farmers. you look at the fact that the new deal-- though not enough-- made a huge difference, look at what the stimulus spending of the war did, look i
i think it matters he doesn't need to run again. i think that means he'll be willing to hold out and be tougher in some ways unanimous his first term. one something that his allies need to run again. democrats in the house and in the senate and he has to keep them on his team so he can't say i'm willing to do all these things to break republican opposition to compromise. >> reporter: republicans also say we have a majority in the house, we won our elections too, thank you very much mr....
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we need a government -- especially when president obama indicated that we are leaving afghanistan responsibly. to me, responsibly means we hold the next election and make sure it is fair and transparent. other than that, we won militarily in afghanistan, but we lost politically. host: before we go and before mr. nagl response to your comments, what are you doing there? who do you work for? what kind of job is it? how did you get it? caller: i volunteered to go to afghanistan in 2002 to help the afghan government, as well as the united states government. i get engaged in many projects. i also worked as an adviser to isaf. i was one of those who worked on the white papers. we looked at it and analyze it and came up with recommendations. it is not just the international committee who created corruption. it is the government, because the structure of the society and the people he is surrounded himself with our -- are very irresponsible and they only care are how to get rich quick. whothey're rewarding those gave the bad name to the private sector. even the government. the united states has been i
we need a government -- especially when president obama indicated that we are leaving afghanistan responsibly. to me, responsibly means we hold the next election and make sure it is fair and transparent. other than that, we won militarily in afghanistan, but we lost politically. host: before we go and before mr. nagl response to your comments, what are you doing there? who do you work for? what kind of job is it? how did you get it? caller: i volunteered to go to afghanistan in 2002 to help the...
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. >>> "outfront" next, president obama gears up for his next fight with republicans. this time, it's over his defense secretary nominee. >> plus days after our taxes went up, some democrats said we need more taxes, higher taxes. yes, we're going to get answers. >> and more details about the aurora theater massacre. for the first time, police describe the scene and what they found when they first saw james holmes. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, saving sergeant hagel. president obama raring for a fight over his defense secretary nominee. you may say why there a fight? on paper, this guy is pretty incredible. looks like he would be a lock for a job that usually is one with pretty much 100% of the senate voting aye. military experience, check that box. he would be the first enlisted man and first vietnam vet to serve as secretary of defense, he was wounded in combat and he earned two purple hearts. business and management experience, after all, the pentagon is a huge organization. check. hagel cofounded a company cal
. >>> "outfront" next, president obama gears up for his next fight with republicans. this time, it's over his defense secretary nominee. >> plus days after our taxes went up, some democrats said we need more taxes, higher taxes. yes, we're going to get answers. >> and more details about the aurora theater massacre. for the first time, police describe the scene and what they found when they first saw james holmes. let's go "outfront." >>> good...
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she needs help now. i voted for obama. it allowed her to maintain her support she would have lost under romney. i main objective right now is that we spent all this time, we are great people, we are talking to ourselves. we are not the ones we need to talk to. we need to talk to the almost half of america who voted against their own best interest repeatedly. i was down in immokalee to talk to people to understand what was going on and talk to people who are republicans, who view the world differently, and to get them to look at their own best interests. and ask the question, what do they want their own world to be? my question is, how do we get to those people? >> i tend to think, as i said, there is a layer of low hanging fruit that is extremely appealing to people across all constituencies and across all parties. it sounded to me like you were saying how can people on the left reach out to people on the upper right. i just think we need to reach out to both sides and appealed to people on the very rational, reasonable se
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president obama yesterday emphasized hagel's personal service and connection to the organization he's now been nominated to run. >> chuck represents the bipartisan tradition we need more of in washington. for his independence and commitment to consensus, he's earned the respect to national security and military leaders, republicans and democrats including me. in the senate, i came to admire his courage and his judgment, his willingness to speak his mind, even if it wasn't popular, even if it defied the conventional wisdowisdom. that's exactly the spirit i want on my national security team. when it comes to defense of the country we are not democrats or republicans, we are americans and most importantly, chuck knows war is not a distraction. he understands that sending young americans to fight and bleed in the dirt and mud, that's something we only do when it's absolutely necessary. my frame of reference, he has said, is geared towards the guy of the bottom, who is doing the fighting and the diel. >> we've gone over the past 24 hours, richard haass, his experience as a war hero, soldie
president obama yesterday emphasized hagel's personal service and connection to the organization he's now been nominated to run. >> chuck represents the bipartisan tradition we need more of in washington. for his independence and commitment to consensus, he's earned the respect to national security and military leaders, republicans and democrats including me. in the senate, i came to admire his courage and his judgment, his willingness to speak his mind, even if it wasn't popular, even if...
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number two, and this is a reality, i've said this before, barack obama does not relate to israel the way bill clinton or even george w. bush related to israel. you don't have the intuitive emotional warm and fuzziness. jenna: how big of a problem is that? >> well, i think it's a problem if in fact the relationship is dysfunctional and can't find a way to operate in sync. george h.w. bush and jim baker had a very tough relationship with the american jewish community and with former prime minister shamir. and yet the two of them, baker and bush 41, had a strategy. so a lot of the tensions were mitigated by the fact that the administration knew what it was doing. the problem this time around on the issue of the peace process for sure is that at least over the last four years this administration hasn't had much of a strategy. it has allowed its rhetoric to exceed its capacity and it has helped, the prime minister has done his fair share to be sure, in creating i would argue to you, jenna, the most dysfunctional relationship between an american president and an israeli prime minister sinc
number two, and this is a reality, i've said this before, barack obama does not relate to israel the way bill clinton or even george w. bush related to israel. you don't have the intuitive emotional warm and fuzziness. jenna: how big of a problem is that? >> well, i think it's a problem if in fact the relationship is dysfunctional and can't find a way to operate in sync. george h.w. bush and jim baker had a very tough relationship with the american jewish community and with former prime...
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needs to stop this crap and get serious about this country. and then we have bill, use brandy, not rum for your throat. so far we've had whiskey rum and now brandy thrown into the mix. >> bill: line 'em up, babe, i'm ready. hello to our roving ambassador, arnold down in greensboro, north carolina. what do you say? >> hey man, good morning. good morning. >> first i want to tell peter that congratulations on the crimson tides. they roll over top of those guys. they got a sad history irish got a sad history of playing good season football but then in the post-season they just like marijuana, they get smoked in bowls. >> bill: oh, arnold! you had to go there. >> just like marijuana they get smoked in bowls. arnold, you made my day buddy. >> caller: listen, so far chuck hagel and the president's backing him. the republicans all president obama has to do, take any subject matter anything they do. if he supports it, they're going to be so far against it, it's unreal. he can take their policies and they will turn it around and not support nothing man.
needs to stop this crap and get serious about this country. and then we have bill, use brandy, not rum for your throat. so far we've had whiskey rum and now brandy thrown into the mix. >> bill: line 'em up, babe, i'm ready. hello to our roving ambassador, arnold down in greensboro, north carolina. what do you say? >> hey man, good morning. good morning. >> first i want to tell peter that congratulations on the crimson tides. they roll over top of those guys. they got a sad...
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. >> i will make it my mission to ensure that the cia has the tools it needs to keep our nation safe. >> reporter: mr. obama's choice to run the cia, his trusted counterterrorism adviser john brennan, is also facing pushback from the president's supporters on the left, because he supported so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used in the bush administration. meanwhile, outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton received a warm welcome as she returned to the state department for the first time since sustaining a concussion in early december. she was surprised with gifts, including a football helmet to protect that injured head. and a jersey with the number 112, to symbolize the number of countries she's visited as secretary of state. one more big change to the second term cabinet could come later this week. e expect the current chief of staff, jack lew, to replace outgoing treasury secretary tim geithner. >> hillary clinton is leaving. john kerry coming in. before she goes, she will testify on the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. >> reporter: that's right. the white ho
. >> i will make it my mission to ensure that the cia has the tools it needs to keep our nation safe. >> reporter: mr. obama's choice to run the cia, his trusted counterterrorism adviser john brennan, is also facing pushback from the president's supporters on the left, because he supported so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used in the bush administration. meanwhile, outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton received a warm welcome as she returned to the state department...
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by the way, who needs congress? house minority leader nancy pelosi wants president obama to use the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling and dodge a legislative showdown. >> if i were the president i would use the 14th amendment which says the debt of the united states will always be paid. >> you would go ahead and do it? >> i would go do it, right. but the congress has incurred much of this debt. we incurred it but we're not going to pay it. if you want to say we're not going to do it so much in the future, that's another thing. but you can't say i'm not paying my past debt. >>gretchen: is that even legal? i'm joined by fox news judge napolitano. i know this is the kind of stuff that gets your blood boiling because you're a big defender of the constitution? >> mrs. pelosi has taken a small phrase in the 14th amendment and extrapolated it beyond its orpblg into the meaning. the phrase says the debt of the united states shall not be questioned. it meant shall not be questioned by the states. a little bit of histo
by the way, who needs congress? house minority leader nancy pelosi wants president obama to use the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling and dodge a legislative showdown. >> if i were the president i would use the 14th amendment which says the debt of the united states will always be paid. >> you would go ahead and do it? >> i would go do it, right. but the congress has incurred much of this debt. we incurred it but we're not going to pay it. if you want to say we're not...
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at least five people needed medical treatment. thankfully no one was seriously injured. not a great way to start the workweek. man. >>> and on capitol hill, the stage is set for a tough fight. now that president obama has nominated former republican senator chuck hagel to be the next secretary of defense. hagel, who has been accused of being hostile to israel and soft on iran, have come out swinging, telling a nebraska newspaper there is not a shred of evidence he's anti-israeli. and president obama says he's the right man with the right background for the job. >> he would be the first person of enlisted rank to serve as secretary of defense. one of the few secretaries who have been wounded in war. and the first vietnam veteran to lead the department. >> he received two purple hearts and president obama says his defense nominee is the leader u.s. troops deserve. >>> also, the president moved to fill one other key national security position, nominating john brennan to be the next head of the cia. brennan spent 25 years at the intelligence agency. his name was floated for
at least five people needed medical treatment. thankfully no one was seriously injured. not a great way to start the workweek. man. >>> and on capitol hill, the stage is set for a tough fight. now that president obama has nominated former republican senator chuck hagel to be the next secretary of defense. hagel, who has been accused of being hostile to israel and soft on iran, have come out swinging, telling a nebraska newspaper there is not a shred of evidence he's anti-israeli. and...